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May 29, 2011

Jennifer in San Francisco

Above: Jennifer posing over breaking in Ghirardelli Square.


Above: At Fisherman's Wharf, Jennifer tries on a hat that has a pair of gloves attached, for whatever reason.

Above: Jennifer inspecting a Bottle Brush tree (Callistemon rigidus) on the corner of Broadway and Polk.

Above: Opal-rumped Tanager(Tangara velia) at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park. (No obvious sexual dimorphism.)

Above: Female Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park.

Above: Paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park. (No obvious sexual dimorphism.)

Above: Some type of Bombax tree at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park. (If you lay out $60 for two people to walk through the Ran Forest exhibit, asking them to label the trees is expecting too much, apparently.) Update: Not a bombax tree, but in the same family. This is a Saba Nut tree (Pachira insignis). Family: Malvaceae.

Above: Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park.

Above: Mexican Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus). Family: Malvaceae

Above: A small flounder in an aquarium at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park.

Above: Jennifer and I got caught out in the rain. Couldn't hail a taxi so we finally broke down and rode the bus which everyone had assured me was fine. It wasn't. It's every bit as bad as you would ever imagine. Insane people shouting and loudly cursing on the bus. I finally called the bus driver out "Can't you do something about this?" "I think he's mentally unbalanced. They tell us not to engage them."

People smoking weed. No maps on where the buses actually go. No routes or schedules. Just disorganized chaos that only makes sense if it's your only means of transportation. The more I'm in the city, the less I like it. Without my motorcycle, it would be completely intolerable.

Above: One of Wyland's whale murals. There are three in the city that I've seen so far. We saw some of his work in a gallery in Kona earlier this year.

Above: Bottle Brush tree (Callistemon rigidus) on the corner of Broadway and Polk.

Above: Cuttlefish at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park.

Above: A male Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola) at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park.

Above: Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) at the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park.

Above: An artist prepares to paint a commissioned mural on Polk and Fern Street.

Above: Mural in Hemlock Alley at Polk Street by Belgian street artist ROA.

Posted by Rob Kiser on May 29, 2011 at 10:11 PM

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